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Any economic historian in the house know what the "capital investment vs. labor investment" ratio was when our ancestors adopted steam engines?

Princess Bride… or maybe Stand By Me. But it’s amazing how many classics he was involved with.

@wtg said in My. God.: President Donald Trump doubled down on his criticism of Rob Reiner, asserting today the slain Hollywood director was “a deranged person.” “I wasn’t a fan of his at all,” Trump said from the Oval Office, less than a day after Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in what is being investigated as a homicide. “He became like a deranged person – ‘Trump derangement syndrome.’ So, I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country,” he said. The irony is this level of narcissism meets the definition of deranged 100x over.

Got me thinking what that process would look like in 3D if it were in a weightless environment. Unfortunately I couldn't find a video for this with a quick Google search.

Link to video

It was Gene Hackman who died, after his wife Betsy Arakawa died of hanta virus. So sad.

Thanks, wtg! And Loki thanks you, too.

@Mary-Anna Yes, it took a few months to completely recover but all is well now. I'm interested in how COVID (the disease and/or the vaccine) affects our bodies, especially in light of my own reaction to the vaccine. When I saw the results of this admittedly early study it just brought home once again how complex and how individual our responses are to various pathogens and treatments (vaccines, medications, etc.). The tofu remark was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I did wonder if there might come a day when someone could front load with tofu (probably in a pill rather than a stir fry) before getting a COVID vaccine, so they could get the benefits of the vaccine without possible negative effects..

@wtg Looks yummy!!

I have had chives in a big pot on my deck for ten years. They come back every year without fail!

How did I miss this? Sorry, @realplayer ! Great minds and all that....

The farmer who farms most of my land is very anti-Trump. The other two are morons politically. I asked one whether he was mad at Trump yet. The answer was "huh". The third reminds me of Putin.

@Bernard I think he's claiming that it was carrying oil to Iran, defying sanctions. He claims a lot of things but I don't believe much of any of it.

Here's their website. https://forte3d.com/ Their YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@forte3d

[image: p0mlb99m.jpg] An area of Mount Zao's Jizōdake summit in 2010 (top left), 2013 (top right), 2020 (lower left) and 2025 (lower right) (Credit: Yanagisawa Fumitaka/ Tohoku Regional Forest Office)

Looking like more good news, this time from Georgia. Democrat Eric Gisler claimed an upset victory Tuesday in a special election in a historically Republican Georgia state House district. Gisler said he was the winner of the contest, in which he was leading Republican Mack “Dutch” Guest by about 200 votes out of more than 11,000 in final unofficial returns. Robert Sinners, a spokesperson with the secretary of state’s office, said there could be a few provisional ballots left before the tally is finalized. “I think we had the right message for the time,” Gisler told The Associated Press in a phone interview. He credited his win to Democratic enthusiasm but also said some Republicans were looking for a change. “A lot of what I would call traditional conservatives held their nose and voted Republican last year on the promise of low prices and whatever else they were selling,” Gisler said. “But they hadn’t received that.” https://apnews.com/article/georgia-house-special-election-gisler-guest-046d2fe14eab0cbe4ce10afd66827020